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Anathoth Community Farm
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Registrace 22. 05. 2014
When Barb and I started Anathoth in 1986 the work we were engaged in was mostly non violent direct action opposing war and empire. We were building infrastructure, raising children, and creating community. Twenty years later, after reading Omnivore's Dilemma and running into Allan Savory and Gabe Brown our "hands on" energy expenditure shifted from war to climate. Nuclear war may be our undoing if it spins out of control but industrial degradation has unleashed a slow motion equivalent. Agro-ecological practices became the means for us to engage in Sacramental Agriculture: discovering the divine intent behind the Circle of Life. Using fairly simple technology we can engage in biomimicry restoring fertility, hydrologic cycles, food production, sustainability, and peaceful coexistence. Humans are not in charge. We exist by the mercy of plants and microscopic organisms working together to sustain life on our water planet. Take some time to get to know and appreciate them.
How Perfect Conditions Become A Problem
We were concerned going into spring after a non existent winter both in temperature and precipitation. Then April and May brought over 11 inches of rain, followed by 7 inches in June with a week to go. Pastures are growing like crazy and making hay has been impossible. We are moving steers 3 times a day to stay ahead of maturing plants. They are doing more trampling than ever while eating their fill every day. I'm going to be mowing paddocks that they never got into as they move back to paddocks where they started. It's a fine problem to have until it isn't. We'll keep you posted as summer progresses.
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How To Go From Winter Bale Grazing To Summer Pasture
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So your pasture has been frozen over the winter and the spring thaw and rains are turning it into a swampy mess. What to do? Find a suitable area where damage can be limited. For us it is a silvopasture that is higher and drier, with solid roots, that needs to be trampled. Move bales around to distribute the disturbing that happens and stop worrying. With minimal field work, I can reseed where ...
Back At The Spring Labor Of Love: Maple Sugaring Post Derecho
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In 2019 a 104 mph derecho blew through our farm changing our old forest into a young one. We used to put out almost 250 taps and make enough maple syrup to sell. This year we found enough remnants of trees to put out 60 taps so we're back at one of the hardest jobs on the farm that defines the return of spring. This is when everything starts waking up again, the birds return, and you can finall...
New, Improved Winter Fencing Hack That Will Keep Cattle Confined With Minimal Effort And Expense
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I've been doing this for years but it needed one more level of tweaking to make it almost foolproof. With this improvised clip to keep the hot and ground wire closer together, there is no way they won't touch both the ground and hot wire at the same time. When you use this technique in overcrowded areas where they will brush against it, they will get shocked and project that all the wire around...
Bale Grazing 2023 With Fencing Hack
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This is one that needs to be repeated annually. It really works. This year our new adaptation is removing netting as we set bales out. Previously, we would flip bales as we used them and then take the netting off. The snow was so deep and wet last winter that it got to the point where we couldn't flip the bales any longer. The fencing hack speaks for itself. The video featuring it was actually ...
Community: The Real Deal When Disaster Strikes
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When our farm got hit by 104 mph winds in 2019 we experienced the power of community from chainsaws clearing debris to friends and neighbors rebuilding our destroyed greenhouses.
The Benefits of Biomimicry In Managed Intensive Grazing
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We have been doing managed intensive grazing for 15 years. The transformation of our pastures is nothing short of astonishing. What you are seeing is after a summer of severe drought in northern Wisconsin. We had 0.97 in. May, 4.48 in. in June, 4.0 in. in July, 1.41in. in August, and so far 1.85 in in September. All of our rain came in a handful of storms- just two in August. I went to Google E...
Processing Chickens During A Heat Wave
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It helps to have a few extra tools in your tool box. And lots of ice!
Fencing Hacks Make Life Easier For All Of Us
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It's easier to co-exist in close quarters when fencing determines who gets to go where. I love it when everyone gets along.
There And Back Again, Part 4
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So we just got an extra 10 days of high quality grazing, and 10 more days of rest for the pastures we'll be going back into, just by doing a whacky move that I wouldn't have considered a few years ago. I'm sure you have similar opportunities to do the same somewhere around your operation. Go ahead and surprise yourself and your animals by getting creative with a little, or a lot , of easily han...
What Are You? Close Encounters Of The Pasture Kind, Part 3
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I love doing agro-ecology. It's way more entertaining than having animals in a warehouse. Out here Sandhill Cranes may come walking by, or we have to keep an eye on the eagle at the top of the white pine looking down on the mobile chicken house. A few weeks ago a yearling bear was laying in the driveway after checking out the chicken yard on its way from here to there. Sometimes we have to clea...
Polywire: Move Your Moos Like Magic, Part 2
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I used to think these big moves were too complicated and possible risky. No more. Once they are trained to the wire, and they know that everything is going to be better once they get there, you can take them wherever your imagination roams. Nothing needs to be hot. It just needs to be in place. Think big and have a nice day.
It's Easy To Move Animals When You Move Them Everyday, Part 1
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The latest move as our steers are migrating through our pastures this summer. This one is a little different because they are walking on the driveway for a while which they never do. None of the wires around them is hot. They have enough experience with electricity that they don't want anything to do with it. When they are (occasionally) resistant to moving we just have two people walk behind t...
Large Garden Composting
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Over the years we discovered that it is important to have a large area to collect compostable materials before actually assembling them into active piles. With green and brown materials coming in from different locations at different times of the year, it is important to get the materials in close proximity and then assemble what becomes a hot, rapidly decomposing pile. Even without assembling ...
Native Plant Fairy Godmother Supervises Xerces Society Plant Grant
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So we met aforementioned fairy godmother when she was a student in the international fiddle school that we cook for. During casual conversation she found out we had 288 plants that had just come in the day before from a Xerces Society grant. She informed us that, when fiddle school was over, she was coming to our farm to orchestrated said planting. Three days later we were done and now all we h...
Swales Protect Watersheds From Manure Runoff
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Swales Protect Watersheds From Manure Runoff
2023 Migration Begins. They are ready to move. Part II
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2023 Migration Begins. They are ready to move. Part II
2023 Migration Begins. They Are Ready To Move. Part I
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2023 Migration Begins. They Are Ready To Move. Part I
Mega-storm Management For Out-Wintered Cattle
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Mega-storm Management For Out-Wintered Cattle
St Croix Valley Food Alliance Initiates Winter Farmers Markets
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St Croix Valley Food Alliance Initiates Winter Farmers Markets
It's Easy To Move Animals That Are Used To Being Moved
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It's Easy To Move Animals That Are Used To Being Moved
2022 Migration Begins. Biomimicry At It's Best.
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2022 Migration Begins. Biomimicry At It's Best.
How To Make Your Pasture Resistant To Drought
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How To Make Your Pasture Resistant To Drought
The feed stores put pellets in the feed. I try to get the ones that have food you can recognize. One company puts red food dye in theirs. Rediculous and my chickens won’t eat the pellets either.
I use 10:1 ratio. How often is it safe to use? Weekly or bi weekly? Thank you.
Thx for the update.. We did not have a winter in southern Michigan either, just mud for days.... Glad that’s over. My grass is over the heads of my heard now.
thats awesome
oh my god this seems involved why not just pee into a barrel outside 80% full of water
Good afternoon sir. Thank for your many lessons. i need rabbit nipples for automatic watering system
Glad to see you are not into accepted norms of continuous pasture failures. I may have hurt someones feelings but you sure have made my day seeing this ! Thank you for sharing
Hmm, what about E.coli? It would be better to ferment the urine for a year before using it, then the bacteria will have mostly died off.
Lmao. The attention span is not that long anymore. That was so funny. I for one missed your videos. The first ones I ever watched when I first watched CZcams was your video on silvo pasture. I think he did a composting one as well if I’m not mistaken. Anyway, I like the longer videos, but I guess I’m the minority lol
Amazing .....an excellent presentation..thank you,Sir🇨🇦
"promosm" ☹️
Lol. In my twenties my relationship with the porcelain god was very one way. Now in my 40's we have a better relationship.
Eww
Yea nice, How do you acuratley gauge it wont be too wet in winter?
A lot of people are grossed out at the thought that a person is collecting their urine, but...a whole days pee is enough to feed plants for a month.. even when it ferments, it just stinks, as long as the nitrogen doesn't off gas and the pee is kept in an airtight bottle, it is still safe to use. It is very potent stuff. You can throw in dead leaves into a tumbler, and without pee it will take a year to break down. Throw on some undiluted pee one every other day for a couple of weeks and that pile of leaves will be ready to use as compost in as little as a month.
I been watching this video for a few years. Do you a update.
What I can tell you is that last summer, we were in a severe drought and our pasture did so well that we were able to send the herd through 17 acres, 3 times with a 40 day rest in between. It was one of the best summers we have had.
How does this water / shelter system work now that you bale graze?
It's the same. The steers still have access to the heated water trough and can get into the corral or behind the barn to get out of the wind. As they walk around the pasture to water and shelter they actually distribute the manure more widely.
Central Wisconsin, very strange winter indeed. Beginning of January the ground wasn't frozen, sunk driving the skid loader. Then 14 + inches of snow on top of that. Deep freeze came. Seemed like it was freezing up a bit. Now we have first spring?! I give up 😮 love your videos, excpecialy the long ones. Lol
Excellent. I so wish we had known how to do this years ago.
Thanks. We re-invented some of the systems over the years and it just keeps getting better.
What oat brand do you use?
Spread all the manure around by unrolling the bales.
Unrolling bales works better with more animals because it gets eaten faster. With 8 steers it takes them 4-6 days to finish a bale and too much of it becomes bedding instead of feed. It all becomes fertilizer eventually but less of it is turning into beef.
What a mess
Ok, that's it. I'm buying buckets.
How do we order your beef?
Tash Peterson (aka Vgan Booty): Pigs are intelligent as 3 year olds 🤬 Isaac Butterfield: 3 year olds? 3 year olds are f**king dumb f**ks, they just sit and sh*t all day.
Beautiful Farm! Keep up the great work.
czcams.com/video/S7CU5PR-Hf8/video.html Move 'em on. It's just like Rawhide! Good place to be an animal. Or a person.
Grass looks amazing good job!
Very True. I need some Community. Thank You for Sharing !!! 🙂❤️🇺🇸
That is some awesome looking pasture! Funny how nature works, here in central Europe this year we had so much rain over the summer! With floods and all, while over the pond there was so dry... But it is great to see that the management intensive grazing system is working as intended!
Nice to see! Thank you! Our july total was .87" wash/sawyer county. 😢
That's tough. We heard about that from folks in the graziers network. Almost makes me feel guilty for the isolated showers we benefited from. We're all in this together.
@@anathothcommunityfarm8819 every time it rains here, I feel the same way. I’m thrilled you got enough to have such gorgeous pasture. I can’t imagine how amazing they look on a good year. I’m praying we look like that next year.
@@anathothcommunityfarm8819 so, I keep thinking about this (I need to go back and rewatch the video again) How long have to been grazing here? And did you plant any type of pasture seed or was it all from bale grazing? I need to not be discouraged because we’ve seen HUGE results in our soil and pasture, and I feel like, had we gotten more moisture this summer, this could be what some areas of our pasture would look like. But I’m trying to think ahead for potential drought again next year on where we can improve to get the most impact.
Such a nice example of you putting the science to work.
Do you have a Geiger counter or something? Whats that noise?
Pee for leafy greens. Poo is for fruits and legumes.
that people need to be told this is absurd. its so obvious and historic!
Beer drinkers have known this for centuries.
we take manure and mold into flat pancakes then sun dried for fire to heat us in winta
weed kila
I have to ask this having done a word-search for "control": did you give the equivalent quantity of water to your control plant? I am not a doubter, I've been recycling solid (easy) and liquid (difficult) human waste for 35 years on the farm where I live. [EDIT] I've read you can overdo the N on pee alone, mix 10g woodash per litre pee tea is one recommendation online, to balance the P and K.
What do you think about the research done on feeding chickens oatmeal?
I have a DONATION AREA where I activate BIO-CHAR (crushed lump coal) and leaf mold for my friends who drink beer and hang out back by the fire pit! I can’t tell the ignorant about the “SECRET INGREDIENT”of they won’t eat ANYTHING from the garden or it’s recipes! Wear some gloves when you lift your cup from the dilution for “THOSE WATCHERS” and explain that you use a mechanical inline propeller type drill motor driven siphoning device, so watchers. Don’t assume you’re sucking on a garden hose.
I add water to their oats ..they love it so much 😊
I just started doing this without really thinking about it. I generally pee in a glass bottle at night because my off grid cabin does not have a toilet and it's winter here now. I just decided a couple of days ago I might as well pour it in a watering can and dilute it to put on my plants. It will be interesting to see how my blueberry plants come along. After living in the bush for a year, peeing in a normal toilet doesn't even feel right anymore.
So its come this huh, golden showers for the crops.. 🍻
thats freaken disgusting no way in hell would i eat any of that f that rain is free why not just use that god and he touches with his bare hands i dont think i have ever felt more disgusted
The land looks pretty flat. Why would there be run off??
Because there is a valley running through the middle of it right into a wetland.
I'd like to see a trial done with different urine dilution ratios. It's hard to find a source for the ratios often quoted online.
Hello from Brazil.
Nice concept.i love this
Remarkable results. It's crazy that we're "rediscovering" something we should have known for 1000s of years.
Conditioning is so thick within society, this really is the tip of the iceberg in my opinion. Unfortunately humans have an addiction to chemicals, and that's no accident. People have no idea how toxic their bodies are and then wonder why they are so sick with cancer or some other chronic illness.
Or it was known but some greedy "philanthropists" buried the truth. How philanthropic of them!
Your steers are so glossy and filled out - beautiful!
They're doing great in spite of the weather. Let's hope we can keep it up through the rest of the summer. Three months to go more or less.